Fun Fruit Facts
In Japan it’s possible to buy
watermelons shaped like
pyramids.
Applesauce was the first
food eaten in space by an
American astronaut.
The longest unbroken apple
peal was as long as an
Olympic-sized pool.
A woman in Florida, USA
found a strawberry shaped
like a grizzly bear.
Strawberries have more
Vitamin C than oranges.
Northern Spy, Wealthy, and Twenty
Ounce are all types of apples.
Kiwi fruits were originally
called “melonettes”.
The shiniest living thing on
Earth is an African fruit known
as pollia condensata.
Wild strawberries can
be yellow.
Eight college football players
competed against two Asian
elephants in a watermelon
eating contest...and lost.
An avocado is sometimes
known as an alligator pear.
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Fun Veggie Facts
The world’s heaviest onion weighed more than a
man’s head.
Astronauts have grown potatoes on the
space shuttle.
The largest dinosaurs were vegetarians.
The juice of one type of chili pepper can
burn through a latex glove.
A woman in Sweden found her wedding ring on a
carrot growing in her garden 16 years after
misplacing it.
420 million years ago, mushrooms grew
taller than giraffes.
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Other Fun Facts
Some honeybee queens
quack.
Popcorn can pop up to
three feet into the air.
Perfectly preserved honey has been
found in ancient Egyptian tombs.
Peanut butter can be converted into
a diamond.
Honeybees can be trained to detect
explosives.
Honey never spoils.
You spend about an hour of your
day chewing.
Baked caterpillars
taste like pistachios
(don’t try this at
home).
You can fry an egg on
a hot sidewalk when it
reaches 158˚F.
The largest pumpkin pie weighed
2,020 pounds.
20% of the food we eat is used to
fuel the brain.
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